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A guy recently posted on reddit about the issues he has with sharpening because he basically has the use of only one hand. I remember a youtube video from some guy that was pretty (in)famous a while ago who demonstrated one handed sharpening with his technique. IIRC he began by dragging the...

Split pea soup was a staple of the German Wehrmacht and is still one of the staples of the German Bundeswehr. 300-400g peas (frozen are easiest) bacon or pork belly (to taste, ca. 1 cup) 2-3 potatoes (ideally mealy) 3-4 carrots 1-2 onions 1/4 bulb of celeriac 1/2 stalk of leeks some stock...

The word is derived from old High German "laiba" (meaning remains, rests or cut-offs) and käse is derived from a dialect variant of Kasten ( see "case" in English). So Leberkäse (or Leberkaas as it would be properly pronounced in Bavaria) really means "cut-offs in a box/form".

Chinese cleaver, made by the village blacksmith. Some guy on the r/sharpening subreddit sharpened this for his Chinese co-worker and took a pic. Not sure if the pic is showing up for you, here is the direct link: https://i.imgur.com/z9qjmtT.jpg

The radial cuts on the onion make it splay out as soon as you apply the least bit of pressure onto the top. You see what she had to do to counter it. I treid it once and abandoned the method right away, even though I had a really sharp knife. If uniform cuts are that important I'd add two...

Just found this on reddit, I have never seen an orange peeled quicker: https://i.imgur.com/Gh1METP.gifv

Too true ... I once did a really nice thinning job on a cheap no-name brand gyuto, almost flawless if I do say so myself, then bufffed the bladeface and on the very last pass across the buffing wheel it caught the spine and slammed the edge of the knife right into the metal base of the motor...

I'd move the very tip up just a few millimeters so one can do push cuts without having to worry about the tip digging into the cutting board even if the angle is not 100% correct. I for one like to do push cuts with the tip angled ever so slightly downwards, then let the knife rock towards the...

A very elegant design, I like it a lot. For practical use I would have rounded the front end edge of the brass bolster a bit more, that would make it more comfortable to use with a pinch grip.

Here is a picture of the first knife I "made" a few days ago - it used to be an IKEA chef's knife from this series here: https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/aendlig-messer-3er-set-hellgrau-weiss-70257624/, except it was the longer 20cm version that is no longer sold by IKEA. I used it to practice...

Yeah I have two of his FH gyutos, the handles are fantastic, in regards to ergonomics as well as fit&finish

Really nice. That might be a second line of business for the Boardsmith!

He'd better start upping his sharpening game :D Does he know how to sharpen on stones? IIRC Japanese apprentice cooks spend the first six months of their training doing nothing but sharpening knives on water stones.

What cutting technique should one use with this KIWI knife here? Rock chopping doesnt really work because the knife is too short and the tip is too low and pointy, which will cause it to dig into the board. Chopping doesnt work well because it has too much belly to prevent accordioning with...

I have a Yaxell 300mm gyuto in my collection and man is it huge. But for whole heads off cabbage and pineapples and watermelons and the like it would probably be well suited.

Perhaps you could contact the owner of japanesechefsknife.com, AFAIK he sells a bunch of knives that he gets from Ichiro Hattori personally. he ought o know if those are real or some kind of licensing deal or just a full-on rip off ...

Probably some dude who was taught to rock-chop with a German style knife by some old fashioned chef who loved his "Wustoffs" and who has never held a Japanese knife in his life.

I do that quite frequently (after all you cut an avocado pretty much the same way) but I have never managed to cut myself that way. The real problem is not paying proper atention.

Those knives are still made today. I have one just like it, diamond emblem in the handle and all (no swastika of course, but the silver lily emblem of the boy scouts on a green field). I also have the dagger version, which looks pretty wicked. Sheath is made of metal btw.

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